Erratum: Contribution of fictitious forces to polarization drag in rotating media [Phys. Rev. E 108, 045201 (2023)].

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.108.

Contribution of fictitious forces to polarization drag in rotating media.

Models for polarization drag-mechanical analog of the Faraday effect-are extended to include inertial corrections to the dielectrics properties of the rotating medium in its rest frame. Instead of the Coriolis-Faraday term originally proposed by Baranova and Zel'dovich [Proc. R.

Energy and momentum conservation upon reflection of a solitary pulse in a bounded magnetized plasma.

When the nature of a magnetosonic pulse propagating in a bounded magnetized plasma slab is successively transformed from compression to rarefaction and vice versa upon reflection at a plasma-vacuum interface, both the energy and the longitudinal electromagnetic (EM) momentum of the plasma-pulse system are found to oscillate between two states. Simple analytical models and particle-in-cell simulations show that these oscillations are associated with EM radiation to and from the surrounding magnetized vacuum. For partial reflection supplemental losses in total pulse energy and mechanical momentum are identified and shown to follow, respectively, Fresnel's transmission coefficients for the energy and the magnetic perturbation.

Enhanced tuneable rotatory power in a rotating plasma.

The gyrotropic properties of a rotating magnetized plasma are derived analytically. Mechanical rotation leads to a new cutoff for wave propagation along the magnetic field, and polarization rotation above this cutoff is the sum of the classical magneto-optical Faraday effect and the mechanico-optical polarization drag. Exploiting the very large effective group index near the cutoff, we expose here that polarization drag can be 10^{4} larger than Faraday rotation at GHz frequency.

Determining the rotation direction in pulsars.

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars emitting lighthouse-like beams. Owing to their unique properties, pulsars are a unique astrophysical tool to test general relativity, inform on matter in extreme conditions, and probe galactic magnetic fields. Understanding pulsar physics and emission mechanisms is critical to these applications.

Role of Magnetosonic Solitons in Perpendicular Collisionless Shock Reformation.

The nature of the magnetic structure arising from ion specular reflection in shock compression studies is examined by means of 1D particle-in-cell simulations. Propagation speed, field profiles, and supporting currents for this magnetic structure are shown to be consistent with a magnetosonic soliton. Coincidentally, this structure and its evolution are typical of foot structures observed in perpendicular shock reformation.

Plasma filtering techniques for nuclear waste remediation.

Nuclear waste cleanup is challenged by the handling of feed stocks that are both unknown and complex. Plasma filtering, operating on dissociated elements, offers advantages over chemical methods in processing such wastes. The costs incurred by plasma mass filtering for nuclear waste pretreatment, before ultimate disposal, are similar to those for chemical pretreatment.